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Excl: Vulnerable children and families still being seen by social workers over video call rather than in-person long after the end of lockdown – raising fears that abuse could be slipping through the net
With @murphy_simon
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🚨 New: Race to track 200 people on flight from Crete after officials fail to tell airline of Covid cases
Eight teenagers tested positive following flight last Tuesday. Wizz Air said they weren’t told until we called them yesterday. theguardian.com/world/2020/s…
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Exc: PR guru Paul Blanchard has been accused by a charity of wasting its money and failed to pay his staff tens of thousands of pounds. He told one staff member owed money she was “trying to leverage in your disabled son in an effort to gain pity points”.
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If you, or anyone you know, have been fined during lockdown for travelling for childcare reasons, please do get in touch with @murphy_simon. Thanks!
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Police spoke to Dominic Cummings after Durham trip in lockdown theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Data catches up with reality - and shows accelerating death toll in care homes
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Emails reveal doctor's desperate but ignored plea for PPE before Covid-19 death theguardian.com/society/2020…
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Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients gu.com/p/dybc6/stw
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UK coronavirus crisis 'to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised' theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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We spent many months investigating Donald Trump's involvement in the teenage modelling industry in the early 90s, a largely overlooked period in the president's life.
This is what we found: theguardian.com/us-news/2020… with @harryfoxdavies @skirchy
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Tory candidate featured in party manifesto suspended as a midwife theguardian.com/politics/201…
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'For all ports, this is a problem': sadness in Zeebrugge over lorry deaths. Those stacks of containers. Just grim.
Story by @murphy_simon theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
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On 28 February 2013 Arcuri said she “spoke to the man last night”. Johnson’s diary for 27 February 2013 lists 8 appointments but the last 2 are redacted because they relate to personal information theguardian.com/politics/201…
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What Vote Leave leaders really said about no-deal Brexit theguardian.com/politics/201…
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Why was Carl Beech taken seriously for so long ? My take for @tortoise
A moral panic over an alleged ‘Establishment paedophile ring’ came to an end with Carl Beech's conviction. The police, politicians and the press all have lessons to learn, says @JackoJourno. torto.se/2ZcYzSp
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Carl Beech - known as Nick - convicted of lying about Westminster VIP paedophile ring
By @murphy_simon
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The real Boris Johnson: politician or journalist? An enjoyable (& occasionally shocking) travel through Johnson’s hack years with 2 biographers (who have v different impressions of him). Produced by @rachel_hump @phil_maynard @axelkacoutie theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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And this read on Johnson's Brussels days as a journalist from @jennifermerode and @jimwaterson...
“He was the paramount of exaggeration and distortion and lies. He was a clown – a successful clown.”
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